Merete Mazzarella (born February 4, 1945, in Helsinki) is a Swedo-Finnish prize-winning author and literature researcher.

Her father's mother tongue was Finnish, but they spoke Swedish at home for practical reasons.

[4] From 1973 to 1995, Mazzarella worked as a lecturer in Finland Swedish literature [sv] at Helsinki University.

Mazzarella held a temporary professorship in Nordic literature at Helsinki University from 1995 to 1998 and was a permanent professor from 1998 to 2008.

[1] Mazzarella has written for Hufvudstadsbladet in Finland, as well as Sydsvenska dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter in Sweden.